Covid-19, CEDAW and Women’s Human Rights

Jun 16, 2020 | Women’s Human Rights Institute
Online
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The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the deeply entrenched inequalities that have shaped the impact of the virus.  Where there was violence, violence has increased.  Where there was marginality, the impacts of the crisis have been amplified.  Where inequalities festered, COVID-19 has flourished.

This Webinar brings together three international women’s human rights experts to discuss the particular impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on half of humanity: women of all ethnicities, nationalities, ages, sexualities, abilities, identities and statuses. The discussion will explore the importance of CEDAW, the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, for understanding, combating and transforming this crisis.   

If CEDAW, the intersectional legal framework for ending discrimination against women in all its forms, had been implemented, the COVID-19 crisis would have unfolded very differently.  International women’s human rights frameworks and mechanisms offer women’s movements crucial tools for analysis and advocacy to transform the underlying discrimination that continues to shape the ways that crises of all forms disproportionately impact women.

Who: Women’s Human Rights Institute

Where: Online

When: 16 June 2020 Time: 10:00 AM – 11:15 AM EDT (NY)